1st Edition
A Gathered Church (Routledge Revivals) The Literature of the English Dissenting Interest, 1700-1930
By Donald Davie
Copyright 1978
172 Pages
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Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1978, this study considers the impact of dissenting voices upon literature, religion and politics in order to reassess the nonconformist contribution to English culture from the eighteenth century through to the twentieth.
This historical survey takes into the account the contribution of a wealth of seminal literary figures such as the poets Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley... Read more
1. The Nonconformist Contribution to English Culture 2. Old Dissent 1700-1740 3. Dissent and the Wesleyans, 1740-1800 4. Dissent and the Evangelicals, 1800-1850 5. Dissent and the Agnostics, 1850-1900 6. Dissent in the Present Century
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Donald Davie
